The aim of this study is to use English and Kurdish Stroop tasks for the first time to examine the reading performance of Kurdish speakers of English as a second language. Nine Kurdish subjects, six males and three females, participated in this research. They read and name Stroop stimuli in each of the six tasks which were divided into two parts, Kurdish and English (3 tasks each). The time difference and the scores of the Stroop effect show that the time to complete the English tasks was longer than that of the Kurdish tasks, but the Stroop effect is almost equal in both Kurdish and English conditions. Moreover, the overall dominance of Kurdish language affects and facilitates the time processing of the Stroop tasks. The high reading performance of the participants is also noted and this indicates the suitability of English and Kurdish Stroop tests with Kurdish speakers of English.
